He also initiated the AA Interprofessional Studio – an MA/MFA programme that explores alternative forms of interdisciplinary collaboration through the research, conception, design and production of genre-defying construction and spatial performance.

Steele was born in the USA, and grew up in Oregon and Idaho, before moving to the UK and eventually becoming a naturalised British citizen.

He first began working at the AA in 1996, when he co-founded the AA Design Research Lab – the institution's first-ever full-time Master of Architecture program, which he led for eight years.

Before joining the staff at the AA, which has a reputation as one of the world's most prestigious architecture schools, he worked as a project architect at Zaha Hadid Architects, founded London firm desArchLab, and practised as an architect and planner in New York.

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